AI grants in Switzerland

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Pairs early-stage deep tech startups with an industry partner for a four-month co-development sprint and pays up to €250,000 with no co-investment required.

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Funds early-stage deep tech startups developing solutions at TRL 4-5 in collaboration with industry partners through a 4-month co-creation programme.

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Supports startups commercializing Earth observation by funding service development and downstream applications.

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Funds EU teams hardening AI systems against adversarial attacks and building privacy-preserving AI for sensitive government and enterprise use.

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Funds one project per sea basin that plugs local ocean data into the EU's shared Digital Twin Ocean platform, for marine policy and Blue Economy use.

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Funds one €9M project turning long-term field-trial data into AI decision-support tools for farmers, advisors and land managers.

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Pays one consortium EUR 500,000 to 1 million to build a unified, open benchmarking framework and suite for exascale and AI-capable supercomputers.

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Funds a business incubation hub that hands 45-60% of its EU budget on as seed grants to help European open-source geospatial software projects become sustainable businesses.

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Funds digital tools that extend electronic freight-data platforms beyond today's regulatory requirements for business-to-business data sharing.

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Pays physical-AI robotics teams a fixed EUR 300,000 lump-sum grant to validate a prototype and then build it into a real-world-tested system.

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Funds generative, foundation and agentic AI for faster materials development, safer plants and more efficient industrial processes.

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Pays deep-tech start-ups, SMEs and research organisations a €300,000 lump sum in Stage 1, then up to €2.5 million in Stage 2, to push high-risk breakthrough innovations that lack commercial uptake toward real-world, demand-tested deployment.

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Funds AI-driven and automated farming solutions for greenhouses, vertical farms and other controlled environment agriculture, with money for SMEs to test them.

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Funds work that makes EOSC's research data and repositories AI-ready and machine-actionable, in line with the GenAI4EU initiative.

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Funds AI teams building generative-AI tools for clinical-dataset enhancement or automotive crash-test case generation, paying up to €100,000 in prizes after an initial €28,500 concept-stage award.

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Funds AI tools that combine Earth observation and socioeconomic data for environmental policy, resilience and competitiveness.

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Funds factory AI that adapts production in real time, improves quality, and cuts scrap, energy use and carbon emissions.

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Funds around four projects, each worth EUR 13 million, to use AI and self-driving labs to speed up the discovery of new chemicals and materials.

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Funds research into AI-assisted digital twins for aircraft design, manufacturing and maintenance, repair and overhaul.

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Funds one team building an open AI-assisted platform, including generative AI, that automates chip and software-defined-vehicle engineering tasks across design, deployment and maintenance.

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Funds one team building an open AI-assisted platform, including generative AI, that automates chip and software-defined-vehicle engineering tasks across design, deployment and maintenance.

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Awards up to €100,000 for GenAI natural-language control of farm robots.

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Pays cash prizes to teams that build and validate generative AI solutions for enhancing clinical datasets or generating automatic test cases from crash databases.

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Funds AI-driven forecasting tools that help energy communities and consumers share power while easing the burden on grid operators.